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Vladimir Putin justified his annexation of Crimea on the ground that he owed protection to Russian speakers everywhere. Last year, we took the Putin doctrine of linguistic imperialism to its natural conclusion. Click to view the interactive version of this map http://econ.st/1LioA3T#econarchive﻿

Chinese Government blocked Line for more than few months now. Facebook and Twitter are blocked as usual. But i cannot visit them even by turning on VPN recently. HK democracy movement in effect ?? Google+ seems fine by using VPN at the moment.﻿

Today in Google History: www.google.com officially launchedOn September 21, 1999 — 15 years ago today — Google announced the launch of its new website, www.google.com, and the end of its 3-year long beta test. In Google’s blog post of this day in 1999, Google said that it averaged about 65 search inquiries per second at peak times and 3.5 million searches per day. Today, in 2014, Google averages over 40,000 searches per second and 3.5 billion searches per day (over 1.3 trillion searches a year) — a 1,000 fold increase in 15 years.

On the eve of TGS, I'm lucky to have so much to be excited about! In the West, I can at last reveal the complete new character roster for Samurai Warriors 4, along with new images and video for them all today. Here in Japan, tomorrow, I'll get to experience reactions to Samurai Warriors Chronicles 3 for the first time...

"As I open the door, they had just written the intro to 'September.' And I just thought, 'Dear God, let this be what they want me to write!' Cause it was obviously the happiest-sounding song in the world," Willis says.﻿

There are holes in Curiosity wheels. There have always been holes -- the rover landed with twelve holes deliberately machined in each wheel to aid in rover navigation. But there are new holes now: punctures, fissures, and ghastly tears.